Mets beat the Phils 2-0.
The home opener. The Hopener. Hope springs eternal.
Read today’s preblow. Scroll down to the next article. I told deGrom he had to throw zeroes. Brilliant managing on my part. And the pen, too. Awesome. We can’t hit for shit. I’ll take the shutout.
In his last start, deGrom let up a 2-run dinger in the first inning. He settled down and didn’t allow another run. It was good enough to earn him an L.
He must learn from this. Starting today–the home opener–he must remember that we can’t hit for shit. We lost the last game 2-1. He has to put up zeroes. We are going to see 2-1 and 1-0 on the scoreboard a LOT this season, just as we have in the previous few seasons. The difference this year has to be that we’re on the winning side of pitchers’ duels*.
*And by pitchers’ duels, I mean offensive futility on our part. Fences in!! Laces out and fences in!!
Well, the Mets can’t hit for shit. Thankfully, Colon can!
Watch Here: Big Sexy’s RBI Single
Big Sexy. Wow. What a hit! Best hitter on the team. Collins is obsessed with batting his pitchers 8th, but I say put him cleanup.
Great pitching, by the way. And great to see Familia with his 1st totally not-steroids-infused save of the season. We salvaged the last game to go 3-3 on our opening road trip. Now for the home opener. Now for the fences-in Shittifield. Let’s see what we can do.
Oops! Stanozolol. Lol. Oops.
This probably means our whole team is juicing up. Sheeeiit. Gotta watch out. Every team is. I’m not an anti-steroids guy. Put an asterisk next to Bonds’ record, fine. Put an asterisk next to Babe Ruth’s record, too, for not having to play night games…and not having to play against non-white people. Asterisks for everyone! I’m old! I’m cranky! I don’t like change!
Anyway, everyone who wins is a cheater, or at least a gamer. Thankfully Colon is using blood spinning technology. Mejia should’ve used that, too. We’re deep. We don’t need him. Hopefully Parnell is back soon.
80 game suspension means Mejia will be back for the 2nd half!
P.S. Mejia denied it. Someone must’ve slipped it into his cereal.
Yesterday, despite the loss, Ron Darling praised Michael Cuddyer for running into Andrelton Simmons. Simmons, the douche that he is, ran over d’Arnaud at the plate. He should have been ejected. He wasn’t due to obvious anti-Mets bias.
Later, Cuddyer was trying to break up a double play and used a “take-out slide” on Simmons, who plays SS. Revenge. Beautiful.
5 years later, and we still haven’t murdered Matt Cain for beaning David Wright. Why not? Because the Mets have been faggy pussies forever. The reason the citizens of Ferguson rioted is because they WILL NOT ALLOW the police to murder them with impunity. The Mets cannot allow this, either.
The ’86 Mets got it. They were gritty as fuck. They played mean and nasty, and that’s the only way to play. They refused to be pushed around. I want to see Matt Harvey throwing high and tight. He’s the leader of this culture-change-movement and I salute him. You have to stick up for your teammates.
I greatly appreciate Cuddyer making that take-out slide. Murph is also a gamer and I love it. Keith and Ron have been preaching this for years, questioning why the Mets don’t fight harder for their own. It was great to see them fighting last night. It’s great to see that they care about winning and that they take care of their own.
Final Score: Braves 5, Mets 3.
The Mets can’t win in Turner Field.
The Mets can’t hit for shit.
The Mets can’t play defense.
This was a game the Mets should’ve won. Flores’ 2 errors and David Wright’s mental error (not getting the sure out at 1st) led to 4 runs for the Bravos. However, I can’t put it all on that. The Mets still look like they have no offense. The Braves no longer have Kimbrel, Venters, O’Flaherty, or Medlen. We should be able to score off of them. But we can’t because Metsblow.
P.S. How fucking insufferable is the Tomahawk Chop? People are putting pressure on the NFL to force the Washington Redskins to change their names. What about the Atlanta Braves? Their grossly intolerant chant (that is heavily supported by the organization and stadium itself, as noted by the horns trumpeting the chant and the jumbotron broadcasting the cheer), really rubs the genocide in, doesn’t it? It’s schadenfreude. It’s disgusting.
Wilmerrrrr!!
2, 2, 2 scoops in 1! This is the middle infield we expected. Niese is a ground-ball pitcher. Flores (and Murph) need to fucking HIT!! Otherwise, it’s just not worth having such crappy defense.
Last night, Gary Cohen said, “When you look at the best rotations int he NL, sometimes you can get distracted by the ones that are top heavy. The Dodgers are the prime example. They had Brandon McCarthy going last night. He wouldn’t be in the Mets rotation.”
Of course, this matters less when you have A-Gon Targaryen and Cubano Cubano Cubano Puig.
The Dodgers are all sizzle and no steak? Not quite. But Gary’s point is valid. This weekend is a huge test for the Mets. We supposedly have a complete rotation. We believe Niese and Gee are strong; 13+ game winners each. They are facing the bad-on-paper but in 1st place/undefeated Braves…in Atlanta. Let’s see what the back-end of our rotation can do.
And the other real test: we are facing left-handers now. We gotta wreck them with our lineup. Mayberry, Cuddyer, Wright, d’Arnaud. We gotta. Tonight, we face Eric Stults, a mediocre lefty. Captain America should be licking his chops. Let’s go.
Mets 6, Nats 3.
2 outta 3 in D.C.!! Happy motherfucking Harvey Day!!
2 outta 3 in D.C. Wow. Can’t say it enough. Great way to start the season. On pace for 108 wins. Or hell, let’s go 161-1. Fuck yeah.
Happy #HarveyDay woooot!! Desmond really sucks, huh?
I’m in PR with Beltran and Delgado. We’re getting our Terry Collins tans on.
Like Keith Hernandez, it took till game 3 for me to go on vacation.
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